P.S. I Love You

8:30am Sunday morning, the sound of “push – it” blared from my charging cell phone. Peeling one eye open, I was about to rip, who ever it was calling me that early on my only day off, a new asshole. The phone displayed “Dad”. For my father to be calling me at all is short of a miracle, I pick up. “Hi Daddy” I managed to whisper, with my voice half gone and my head a bit sore, one too many Bacardi and Diets last night “Brandi, get up, lets go to Palm Springs for the day.” He shouted, way too much energy for eight a.m. “Hell yeah, I’m already in the shower!”

Palm Springs is a favorite local get-a-ways, beautiful weather year round, a good crowd, yummy food and to sweeten the deal, a brand new casino.

Word of a new poker room at the Spa Casino had me very interested, I checked it out. It was more like a poker corner, no tournaments to play, I decided to come back later. I went looking for other trouble, sashayed my skirted ass through the casino and took a seat at the 3 card poker table. Played a few hands, couple straights, couple flushes, a few pairs, I always play “pairs plus” kind of like a bonus game. Singing Peggy came to say hi and took a seat at the table, she started razzing me about not playing the Jackpot for a dollar more a hand. “What’s wrong with you” she harped “you don’t have a damn dollar” I rolled my eyes and asked the dealer for Jack Pot dollars. The Jack pot rules are Royal Flush of Spades won the progressive pot of $8,474.00 dollars a Royal Flush of any other suite paid 10% of that pot. Plenty of hands went by, singing Peggy had to bail, I stayed on. Playing with the same one hundred eighty dollars the whole time, at thirty dollars a hand, I was pretty proud of myself. Then it happen……Clubs Ace King and Queen. I yelled out “FUCK ME”! The dealer hushed me and when it was time to flip over my hand the table went wild…. I won $1,3070.00 10% of the progressive and 40 to one on the pairs plus. So much for March’s bad luck…. I bought the table a round of drinks, collected my money, hung out for a short while longer and made my way to the room for a nap. I know when to walk away.